The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-10
COL M'LEAN TALKS.
ABOUT roLlr1cs AND T1lE FAIR.
He Pralses the State falr md Is Impressed
By Wheellng's Progrcss-Iiis Position In {;
Polit!es-The Needa OF tho State and
tho Prospects Of tho Party.

Colonel ]. L. Mclean, Of Putnam eoun.
ty, has been one Of tho most interested
visitors to the State Fair. In conversa.
ton with an 1srELLldENcRR reporter, yea.
terday, he said: Nh, q.
" wonder II you Wheeling people ap.
preclate what you have In this great an.
nual exhibition. To me It Is not only an
object Of Intense interest, but Of increas.
Ing surprise as vol. 1t ius dlSplay which
does grea. credit to tho exhibitors, to the
city and 10 the State. And then the
crowds. was thinking as l looked upon
tho paoplo passing from QUO exhibit to
another, some interested moss In one
thing, come in another-I was wondering
whore they oil came from. Then !
thought how wiso thoy wcro 10 come, nnd
how much benefited the wiRest Of them
would DO. II, S15 A IT1I.
THE FAIR AZ AN EDUCATOR. ~.
"You know that the best informed have
always gomethlng 10 learn, and the value
OF 80 great an exhibition as On educator
has impressed mo deeply. l must cay,
too, that l hardly knew Wheeling under
ita high preenure Of natural gas. DO your
own people resliEs the change? Do they
appreciate the marked improvement on
every hsnd2 By accident l was present
for while last night at the meeting to
take eteps for tho purchaee of q public
park. tell you l liked the apirlt OF those
men. They were 30 much In earnea. and
went about the work 80 intolligeutly. So
much as heard OF the discussion would
havo done credit to any deliberatiys body.
OF course l know nothing about 1t, but
t,om what heard at that meeting, and
from the comments I.hosr today, Wheel.
ing 10 going to get her park. 1t will be q
grand thing for her. 1t pays cities TO
mako themselves attractive. The doliaro
and cents come ,back, II you take no
higher view of IT," s.Ii ''.fl
THE IANAwHA VALLEY. II
"Colonel, what about tho develop
oil the kauawhs Valley? We arc inter.
eated In that lgl ESlli7 1919
"Going ahead steadily. You know that
New River coke is puahing surely to the
front, and the kahawha coal 10 in favor.
Outgldera arc hearing OF theae things and
coming in to share tho benefits. By the
way, leased come land in my county to
operators from Plymouth, Pennsylvania.
They began in April, md now they are
shipping coal to the Northwest via the
Lakes." It's, - ~ 5s771
"All this isn't hurting the Republican
party down your way, ID itr"5
WE think 1t isn't. The drift Ia in our
favor. was just saying TO gentleman,
IN anawer to q question, that the wage
earnsrs Of Weat Virginia can no longer bp
mislsd OIL the tariff queation. They al.
ways have been right themselves, but
some Of them, with Democratic pyocliyi.
tics, were wiling to give the Democratic
party long trial. They have been disa,-
pointed. They are eaying now-msny
who talk with me--that the vote OF that
party in Congress makes 1t impossible for
:hem to hupport 1t longer. They are for
protection, and they are coming where
they will find It. They have their ideas,'
too, about State aGsira. and they Gro
ready to try another hsnd OF the plow. l
do not, OF course, know 30 well how it is
elsewhere, except by report, but in our
eec!ion there is among Democrats great
dissatisfaction with the State ADMINISTERS
ton. Il hsar them 6sy that they would
like 10 have the books examined st
Charleston, as they were examined at
Washington, by other hands than thoHo
that wrote them. There is also feeling
that il the State wero under Republican
rula foreign capital would DO more likely
70 come III and tho State make such pro.
gress sc she hiss never known. Z This idea
10 well founded, SO far as I am acquainted
with Eastern capital" - 49, a.
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